Kings XI Punjab has the most money available to spend at this year’s auction © ESPNcricinfo Ltd A total of 351 players which includes 122 capped internationals will feature in the IPL players auction, scheduled to be held in Bangalore on February 20. This final list has been pruned from the original size of 799 after the eight franchises submitted their wishlists to the IPL. Sudeep Tyagi, who has played…
Liam Livingstone registered a Lions’-best score [file picture] © Getty Images Sri Lanka President’s XI 153 (Chandraguptha 48, Helm 3-18) and 182 for 4 (Chandraguptha 91) lead England Lions 279 (Westley 95, Livingstone 84) by 56 runsScorecard England Lions were subjected to a long, hot day in the field after a poor morning batting performance on the second day of their warm-up match against a Board President’s XI in Moratuwa…
England news February 13, 2017 With Joe Root confirmed as Alastair Cook’s successor, we look at some of the areas he will have to focus on Play 00:51 Root’s England captaincy to do list How will he approach captaincy?Nicknamed “craptain” after overseeing a Yorkshire defeat at Lord’s in which Middlesex scored 472 for 3 in the fourth innings, Joe Root has little captaincy experience. However, he is close to former…
Nasir Jamshed, the out-of-favour Pakistan opener, has become the third player to be provisionally suspended by the PCB as it continues its investigation into the corruption scandal that hit the Pakistan Super League this weekend. “PCB has provisionally suspended Nasir Jamshed from all forms of cricket for violating its anti-corruption code,” said a statement issued by the board on Monday. Unlike Sharjeel Khan and Khalid Latif – the two Islamabad…
Play Archive: Joe Root’s ‘one-track mind’ It doesn’t seem long since a baby-faced Joe Root first strode into the glare of international cricket. It doesn’t seem long since those first press conferences when, consumed by nerves, he blushed and blustered, or since Graeme Swann compared him to an “annoying little brother”. It really isn’t very long (it was at the end of the 2015 Ashes) since he couldn’t control a…
Play 03:40 Need to work on how we can play for longer periods in these conditions – Mushfiqur On the fifth morning in Hyderabad, Bangladesh had pinned their hopes of a draw on Mushfiqur Rahim but four balls into R Ashwin’s first over of the morning, he was caught at mid-off attempting an expansive drive. As soon as the catch was taken, it was clear that Bangladesh’s job had become…
Play 05:46 Kalra: Ishant repaying investment made in him India captain Virat Kohli has said his fast bowlers’ performance in the Hyderabad Test has raised his hopes that they can succeed on foreign soil. While their numbers during this home season haven’t been as imposing as those of R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja, the likes of Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav and Bhuvneshwar Kumar have chipped in with incisive spells at…
The recent series in Australia was Umar Akmal’s first ODIs since the 2015 World Cup © Getty Images Umar Akmal, the Pakistan batsman, believes he can revive his Test career despite not having played the format for nearly six years. Akmal, 26, had made his Test debut at the age of 19 in 2009. He scored a century in his first innings but did not make another one in his…
Joe Root is set to be named England’s new Test captain © AFP Joe Root has been named as England’s Test captain, succeeding Alastair Cook, who last week stepped down after four years in the job. Root, 25, had been the frontrunner to follow Cook in the Test role, having been made vice-captain in 2015. He met with Andrew Strauss, England’s director of cricket, last week and was offered the…
Dhananjaya de Silva did not score a fifty in 14 international innings on the South Africa tour © AFP Dhananjaya de Silva – fresh from a tough tour of South Africa – has been named Sri Lanka A captain for the two unofficial Tests against England Lions, which start from February 17. Test opener Dimuth Karunaratne has also been named in the squad, as well as Sri Lanka’s second spinner…